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Westerners Off First-Run Screens By R. K. SHULL WELCOME RELIEF on the film front will be the nonappearance of a single Western among the first-run films ; 3 3 9 ; for the coming week. . : Loew's There'll still be plenty of action, with a pirate picture, E ; “ a gangland epic and a violent problem film. 28 : : ; ; THREE LITTLE WORDS Opening dates will be: “Three Little Words” (Loew's, : oe Bh TH Ro

Thursday), “Treasure Island A short time later, Astaire In-) Starring in film attractions coming during the next week will

(Indiana, Wednesday), “The i; ires himself dancing and is told| be: Richard Widmark in “Night and the City: (Circle, Thursday), Lawless” (Lyric, Friday), he can’t dance for a year. He sets| Vera Ellen in “Three Little Words" (Loew's, Thursday), Bobby Drisand “Night and the City” (Circle, [Vera Ellen Wa age ach coll and Robert Newicn in "Tresite Liang! {indiana, WednesThursday). . day), and Veronica Lake and Joel McCrea in "Sullivan's Travels" Esquire’ will bring back a pair|Tuns into Skelton again, and this er) Friday). of Hollywood oldies, “Sullivan’s time they start writing hit songs. ’ Travels,” with Joel McCrea and Astaire finally gives in and Sheet. [B1teT you leave the theater|marries her, then she talks him Veronica Lake, and “The Great|sents to marry Vera Ellen. Skel-i;e.5,56 you'll still have that one|into turning honest. McGinty,” with Brian Donlevy, |ton continues to play ‘the field. | tought, that it could happen| Result of his honesty is bad, #2 a |They write a few hit musical pepe and Donlevy and the boss are B tif I Boot {shows and establish themselves | a, {imprisoned for graft. They bribe ountitu ooty las big-timers. Shady Worl {their way out and go to work in BOBBY DRISCOLL will prob-| Astaire attempts to write a/ofnaa@y or : le Bis American bar, away ably be the envy of every urchin|straight stage play. Keenan] RICHARD WIDMARK was a|from their old haunts and their BE : Esquire in town when “Treasure Island” Wynn, their agent, reads the play small-time character with aspira- ldays of wealth. opens Wednesday at the Indiana. and thinks it smells. He convinces tions of making ‘big money” | Joel McCrea is a frustrated “SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS" He's Jim Hawkins of the famous Skelton it does, so together they someday. He ended up floatingimovie director in “Sullivan's : Robert Louis Stevenson children’s Perguage Astare’s backers to face down in a Thames: in{Travels.” His studio permits him Z. withdraw their money from the “Night and the City.” to direct nothin t © . He's along with the cut-throat show so Astaire won't get hurt. | ny and y good guy, He a a ing be Somedtee | Ft eee mei: grew of the Hispanola which ja About this time, Skelton meets yy ch Marlowe, are both in love| McCrea decides to go out and eral tax bill comes along, even| In Hollywood— i A Ee Selelis. cute yowg Singer named Arlwith Gene Tierney. Gene. loveslive With the Nobves: aud bumsiUCHen Jt Seniains a gwen) bo) oT ’ |Widmark, for all his promises of (for a while then come back an 5 . J A $ i lat J galls Lone Jons, Shiver 2nd his marry. wealth and a life on Easy Street.(d0 a drama on. the destitute. His| letter. apanese Cc ress mu eS ane : usse some of the other possiuly in the) The boom is lowered when| wjidmark tries to crash into[Plans go well until he has all his This is all good news for the| __° : iki some (Wynn, in 3 drunken SUPE, Je |the wrestling game as a pro-|identification swiped by a tramp mot on Picture Zeonle io have, By Erskine Johnson Das already been told that she, out her home in Japan the way Or. ii 1a tn solor. 46d Doane . 0 Ai aire how they killed moter, getting the backing of one|ln 2 charity mission, h ot worse i iff that the war) HOLLYWOOD. July 31... Jane|™i8ht do well in Yankee plctures| they point out Pickfair snd pd I on s play. Astaire goes away mad. of the wrestling luminaries. He| He teams up with a girl, Ve-| n orea would ruin their chances & ER & Ny - ane| ith a little fishskin stuck to her ain . 28 Bl a oe | Skelton continues to hammer pag to pull a couple of double/ronica Lake, and they tour the Of ever getting rid of the World| Russel, an ou! , y from al... to make them slant. ilnger Rogers’ swimming pool Jal De itd op. Thi or hit songs, and Astaire makes crosses to get what he wants, | nether world together, observing| War II emergency tax on enter Sorgeaus dis of Sk yak named ui» . in Hollywood. straight drama, and was Fmed ha ving writing fur Sie Movie. and the crossed people are por-/tle_Seany ae or oe. Js JTe-ytainment. . v2 [ne DRE Comer yD “EVERYWHERE they say I'm| “You do not need take off in England, with a predominantly | Arlene get the two boys together turbed. . Ons becomes so per-| ok to the hobo ngles f Boe . |erson, President Truman and the/not typical,” Shirley sighed. shoes when you come to see me," British cast |Arlene g ys tog turbed he places a price on Wid-| ungles for the Duke & Mills Bros. Jerson, 3 Heading the line-up as the fear |for a happy ending. {mark’s head. past time o Sisteiute $5 bills. SOMETHING to spark up ely Department to bring de-| Even in Japan, Older Japanese Shirley twinkled. “You just go 's Rol | i Ea 8, | Widmark doesn't worry as long| ne same tramp who stole his| = 0 . oO Japan, lactresses very quiet. Fm unique,into my bar and I make you some Long John is Robert New Hysteria |as he has his big-time protector, |!dentification steals all his (onjeriainment interest downtown Shirley was already ‘way out |, life ig very westernized. They|Scotch. It's democracy.”

o— oh or ogiand EY oo IN MAY, a film producer named |but when the protector dies, he Money. The tramp is crushed Will be two headline band unitsiin front as Japan's highest-paid

! | | due for the Circle Theater next lsay I am sexy, isn’t it?” She also knows just how Betty {William C. Thom {has to start running for his life under a train while getting away. | {movie star when she dropped into] ’ Lamarr and Rhon coll, as the cabin boy who blund-| napoli i A Se dosn't run a nor far| With the news out that he js|month and in September. {the Fox Tokyo to see “The Out-| ,Tt"ipained Shirley when word| bution. 5 Y 1 whe . ers into one of the greatest sea : , already dead, and no means of| Duke Ellington and his orches-|jaw” and hear Jane say in dubbed po ga Fleming feel when they : 1 4 he was ushering John Payne and enough, and that’s why he ends y igot to her that a lot of people thei linked with perf adventures of al} time, {some other film notables around up floating face down in the river, |!dentification, McCrea is arrested tra will arrive at the theater Aug. japanese: “Billy, let me go.” | oH ; oe nes "2 ertee » = = Some othe | “Time heals all things, and a 2nd thrown in prison. When he|10 for a one-week stand, playing no. gpirjey's out even farther around Hollywood had decided strangers in newsprint. Song and Dance 2 ry ts the type of per-halt BE Es, happily |€ets out, he marries Veronica and Fegular Tonr-a-day performances. Be. told me: "that she didn’t look enough lke _Peofle In Japan se Me ale BERT KALMAR and Harry sons who is easily excited. but in|riding with Mr. Marlowe. {plans to make comedies the rest He'll also have three variety acts| oo. 1) try to be like Miss Jane Madame Butterfly. | gossip.” , big

| {in addition to his poll winning { d h f being a , able to recog- i yo» of his life. He learns there is too| They accuse er o 4 Ruby may not be able to recog-/May, he was flipping his lid. And . Russell in Japan movies. Ah, but| "0. "central Casting and # uo»

sidemen. > elves in the film, “Three all over his lat . |much sorrow in the world. with-""_ ©" - | Little. Words,” but it's supposed "The EE et Do You Recall? out calling attention to it. | in recent years, The Duke has|00t as oe, you understand.| to pull a Sigrid Gurie (the| THE CHERRY BLOSSOM Att] , s ed | “The s. g | REMEMBER “The. Great Mo- FY |confined his touring to conecrt/After all”—here she grabbed aim... ijvn.horn “Swedish” star) on|lovely has three mink coats, a to be their lives that Fred Astaire Lyrie. aa 3 aly. A T Taf performances and usually one-{Paper fan and hid her face—"wefip. nroducers h Kk tal d and Red Skelton interpret, respec-| According to Mr. Thomas, his Ginty?” Or “Sullivan’s Travels?” AX |aX-—iQ f nighters. Whether this is a’indi- Japanese women are small.” jthe p a 4 to bel Qusekeeper, a secretary anc. a tively. {¢iim will portray mob violence in|They both packed a lot of adult] “MY OWN FEELING is that|cation of hard times in the or.| The vital statistics on the Pressiin mire Shier explained, Personal hairdresser. Her fan As the film goes, Astaire isthe worst light, and show how laughs and gentle satire. . the tax (20 per cent federal|chestra world, or just an effort/release handed me gave her af ow pin Be ‘oo y xp a lot of mail has broken the back of more enjoying a measure of success as the average work-a-day American| Brian Donlevy Is a bum in amusement tax). should be re-ito meet the people doesn’t matter, height as five feet, weight as 98/Marys and Susies are worried! than one postman. a vaudeville hoofer, teaming up can be sucked along in a tide of McGinty.” One fine election day|duced to 10 per cent, war or no its all for the benefit of Indian- pounds and bust measurement as b it their Johns ‘and Henrys in| Shirley 1 hod: with Vera Ellen. But he isn’t mass hatred and mayhem. he picks up a few extra bucks and war,” according to Sen.: Robert apolis. 321: inches bout a J ° that ry vel « “It! oy wg 10s » happy, because he really wants to| He and his co-producer, William a free meal by repeatedly voting.|A. Taft (R. 0.) in a letter to| The other show headed our way ; ohio ar two. oiner uslinlokd in Be oa aL ee tans plow ein oe lywood. ot uy be a magician. |Pine, selected the town of Marys-|At the victory celebration for the (Abram F. Myers, chairman of the \will come to the Circle Sept. 7.| Cho-Cho Sans have dropped in | “Yes the GIs whistle at me write~I am ay ideal girl, About the time he gets his first|ville, Cal., and employed the entire party he helped into power, lie Legislative Committee of theiThe Mills Brothers will make a Holl : 3:4 ppe lsh AIS ut rr nd ne |v deg and magic act together, he meets a population to work in the picture. learns that there is more money Council of Motion Picture Organ-|one-week stand, accompanied by | mn oliywood in rece {months en an hig ie a Yoentkol A sfrmiiiflon Ook song plugger, Red Skelton, who The result is: The people of the waiting for him in return for izations. (Elliot Lawrence and his orchestra.” =the last was dubbed the Bette ge RA A aes Lt pore : n # o hss rp. IN is really a frustrated baseball/town are acting their real life other little political favors. | Sen. Taft, who is a member of The time has been flying. It was Davis of Japan—but Shirley's ly amaguchl. ns in| to Shirley what M-G-M is to player. Skelton agrees to help roles with more sincerity than a, Not adverse to an easy dollar, the Senate Finance Committee, seven years and a war ago that| the first to send the mercury |“3Pan nickname me Shirley. Tuay Saxjang t the $150,000 him with the act, but only succeds group of professionals. Donlevy works diligently and is key group in tax matters, indi-|the Mills Bros. first popped into| Z°0ming. : nd | she gets per me doesn’t buy in ruining the show. |” To ‘go one step farther away/soon the right hand man to the cated he will introduce an amend-|the public eyeball with their old| It's mot for nothing that she's LET THE TONGUES wag, but| many se i kneel. Astaire goes back to dancing/from the conventional, the pro-|political boss. The boss expresses iment to any tax bill asking relief |discing of “Paper Doll.” They're known as the Betty Grable of Shirley's a dyed-in-the-silk movie, os ”, ne bath. with Vera Ellen. They dance their ducers took an amateur actor his appreciation by making him to the moviegoers. J [still drawing big hands on the/Nippon.’ : queen from Hirohitoville with a She says that 75 per ob p way right into a command per- named Lalo Rios and made him/governor of the state. Then| “If we can’t go ahead with a same tune, and the few dozen| Shirley fills out a kimono the mansion, fan mail and income tax salary goes to the formance for President Woodrow the star. The result is a film|troubleenters the story in the [limited bill, then I shall advocate others they've made in the in-/way Esther Williams takes uP|woes. income ‘tax

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